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that we couldnt understand why the cottage we had rented behind the
hotel in Honolulu didnt have any glass in the windows. When you are
struggling with a fever, any breeze coming through the jalousie win-
dows feels like a draft that needs to be stopped. The visit to the Pearl
Harbor Naval Base twisted our heartstrings. The idea of hundreds of
seamen having been trapped and drowned in the hull of the battleship
Utah was hard to take.
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ing almost every day for the previous three months. As a result, the
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of mud into the sea. There was a brown line coming out of the Golden
Gate which extended for miles out to sea (representing the river) before
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us to stay with them while we visited Mother and my sisters and their
families. One morning we left their home and went in to visit Laurine.
We soon received a telephone call from Jeanette asking us to return to
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rain. There was water about 18 inches deep coming across the front of
their yard. I waded through to get to the house where I found Gord and
a couple of friends busily shoveling a ditch across the yard in order to
try to move the water through faster and thereby to protect their home.
There were two high-school-age boys next door who stood in the open
doorway of their home and laughed at us. Not much later, the water rose
high enough that it went right through their house en route to the creek
behind!
In returning to Arabia we spent a few days in Copenhagen. We
loved the teak furniture the Danes designed and made. We bought the
dining room set and a beautiful desk for me that we still use.
Jean and I had decided that we needed to return to the States
in order to ensure that Cindi had proper medical reviews and potential
surgery. This was a hard decision because I had always been very ambi-
tious in my career and had worked very hard to achieve the success that
we had enjoyed. I had worked my way up to the top 3 percent of the
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